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The hotel, which was abandoned for years, was gutted by a fire that burned for hours through the old brick building.

Video from a firefighter’s helmet cam shows crews moving in on the blaze that sealed the fate of the building that’s sat empty for more than a decade.

The hotel was once a symbol of a thriving downtown. The plan was to turn the rundown hotel into a parking lot. The city shut it down in 2001, evicting tenants over hundreds of code violations and a bat infestation.

In the past 13 years, the city has faced the one-two punch of a recession and the state pulling redevelopment funds. Like many abandoned buildings in downtown Sacramento, the building just sat, too pricey for the city to tear down or renovate.